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SAFETY AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT SURVEY – TRAINING The FAA over the next year will be reviewing many aspects of air traffic training, including proficiency a nd skill enhancement training. One goal is to iden tify training topics that may need to be updated, while investigating new and more effectiv e methods in program delivery. Your participa tion in completing the linked survey conducted by the FAA ' s Center of Excellence for Technical Training and Human Perfor mance will assist them in identifying the topics and delivery methods to be examined. NATCA recommends participation in this survey. Click here to start the survey. Partic ipation is completely anonymous. SURVEY – IFR/VFR CONFLICTS ATO's Safety and Technical Training group (AJI) has been asked to assess the effectiveness of awareness campaign materials related to IFR/VFR conflict s. The purpose of this survey is to gather opinions on how IFR and VFR traffic is handled at your facility. The goal at this time is to gather baseline information on the current culture, attitudes, and behaviors related to managing potential IFR/VFR confl icts. The plan is to provide a follow - up survey in about a year, to assess changes in attitudes or behavior related to IFR/VFR conflicts. This IVF/VFR Conflict Attitudes survey is voluntary and all responses are anonymous. No identifiable information is i ncluded in this survey. NATCA has recommended participation in this survey. Please click this link to take the survey: http://survey.sogosurvey.com/r/bmp5mY NATCA Safety & Tech Upd ate Week of Oct. 2 , 2017 FLOW EVALUATION TEAM (FET) Tony Smith (DCC) is the Article 114 Representative to the Flow Evaluation Team (FET) for Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) . His report is below. The CDM/FET subgroup met on Sept . 5 - 7, 2017, at the Air Traffic Control Sy stem Command Center in Warrenton, V a. , to resume work on our assigned tasking of identifying classes of scenarios and benefits of submitting Trajectory Option Sets (TOS). This tasking will focus on what benefits can be realized with the use of the Airborne Reroute (ABRR) and Pre - Departure Reroute (PDRR) capabi lities when they come online. We received a briefing from Mark Holben, TFMS development team lead, on the status of ABRR/PDRR. Mark explained that progress has been slow because the TFMS c ontract has yet to be awarded. The ERAM interface issues that stopped the original testing of ABRR in select facili ties continue to be worked on. The current expectation is to have the tool turned o n in ARTCCs in early November. We also held a telcon with Mark Novak of the Program Office about the enhancements and prio rities of fixes for ABRR/PDRR. Some of the items included Departure Viewer enhancements, use of CDR Codes in tower strips, future work on electronic coordination on route changes, increasing the number o f TOS above 5 and use of CTOPs.